Nursing Homes Receive Tech Cures

Until last year, the Valley View Center for Nursing Care and Rehabilitation in Orange County, N.Y., was a typical nursing home in the way it handled patient data: "Everything was on paper; everything was handwritten," said Margaret Calta, associate director of nursing for the county-owned 520-bed long-term care facility.

Paper copies of prescriptions were hand-delivered to pharmacies; the only computers in regular use were...